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My Mojo Is Back!

(My sister keeps telling me I need to blog… so here I am. Thanks for the push Brita!)

I have a few things for show & tell today! Yay!

At Christmas time I whipped up 4 kitchen towels as gifts, this is only 2. I forgot to take a picture of the other 2. Oops! I just bought the towels & made some appropriately sized binding strips out of scraps & attached it to the bottom of the towel. Super quick, used scraps & they turned out really cute! I might have to make some for my own house soon!

This is my new scrappy kitchen rug! If it gets spaghetti stains I will just sew more scraps over the stains! I’m excited to see how this will stand the test of time.

W spends most of his days reading. Sox decided to hop up with him one day & curl up on his back! A-DOR-A-BLE!!! Sox likes to snuggle more than any cat I’ve ever met. I am happy he returned this morning from a 5 day walkabout. He seems pretty happy & hungry, but he must have been fighting because he is all scabby.

This is the January quilt for the Peace circle of do. Good Stitches. I asked for scrappy, warm & cool log cabins (with no pink or purple). I was imagining a different layout, but when I tried it out the design was hard to see. So I tried this layout & I like it so far. I will just have to see how it all turns out when I have all the blocks.

These are my February blocks for the Peace circle of do. Good Stitches. We used the Scrappy Trip tutorial which turned out to be really fun & WAY easier than I expected. I can’t wait to see this quilt take shape. (P.S. Can you BELIEVE I finished my blocks so early?! I’m trying a new thing. It’s called NOT procrastinating.)

I FINALLY pulled out my Arcadia fabric to make a quilt for my bed! The blocks are done I just need to sew them into a top! Exciting!! The colors look a little off in this photo. (My camera has been taking dark, blurry photos lately…& by lately I mean the entire time I have had it, it just seems worse lately. Maybe I just suck at photography.)

W’s quilt is DONE!!! I will get good pictures of it someday (or not…) but it’s a pretty basic brick pattern. Both the boy’s quilts turned out ENORMOUS! I’m not sure what numbers I was using to determine the size but they are extra wide & long. Oh well! They will maybe just get more use out of them as they move into different sized beds! :)

I finally made a back for this quilt & quilted it! I just need to hand sew the binding & wash it up & it’s done! YAY!! This was made using the stacked coin quilt along at Don’t Call Me Betsy.

Yay! I’m so glad you put some stuff up. I love the picture of Sox cuddling up with Will. Nice quilts. I love the black one. You should help me come up with an idea of an easy quilt that I can make for Adeline for when she switches to a bigger bed.